discontinuous recording

Hi there,
i'm new in this forum and i hope some1 of you can help me.
I have installed ubuntu studio 12.04 on an acer aspire 1623LMi and i'm producing my music, but when i use ardour to record my guitar or my voice (or anything plugged on the line in plug) the record is discontinuous. I thought it was a problem of old hardware but sometimes in the past it worked well.
Sure of your interest,

Re: discontinuous recording

hi sylos.
tx for your reply.
My problem is, for instance, that when i record the voice i start recording and singing but ardour records for few seconds then it doesn't record anymore for some seconds, then it captures the voice again. It seems to me something about a record buffer...
anyway this happens with ardour with or without qjacktl. I have no xruns neither odd messages in qjacktl and if i try to record with audacity it works well...
Audio drivers to be updated or what?
I hope you can help me.

Cant see anything prohibitive in terms of your spec. Could you try the following:

Open a terminal and start ardour

Code:

ardour2

Then try and do your recording. When it drops in and out look at the terminal output and copy and paste it up here on the forum. You will need to leave ardour open whilst you do this (if you close ardour the terminal window will disappear). Hopefully the output will shed some light on the situation.

Re: discontinuous recording

hi sylos,
i did what you asked me. I have to say that i'm not home and i have not my guitar and my usual mic with me.
i tryed with a simple desk mic to record over a session that gave me problems at home and....it worked perfectly....three times...all along the song....without any interruption...i even tryed with rakarrack...everything was ok.
I can't understand. As i come back home i try with my usual hardware and i report the results to you.
tx and i write you asap,
M.

Re: discontinuous recording

Hello again - I have to say I thought this problem had fixed itself or you had given up - hence I stopped checking for replies.

Anyway - Im sorry to say I dont see anything there that shouts out at me a reason for your problem. My level of knowledge is relatively low.

You could try posting on the Linux Audio users mailing list. The guys there are pretty high level and may have a better chance of figuring the problem out. Otherwise I can only suggest trying a removal and reinstall of Ardour 2 OR trying Ardour 3.